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Power coming back today in East Syracuse, but some customers will wait until Friday, National Grid says

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Rosemary Whitney looks over a snapped utility pole with a transformer lying on the ground Tuesday at the corner of East Irving Street and Spring Street in East Syracuse. National Grid says customers in the village should all have power restored by this afternoon.
(Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.)

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - National Grid crews have restored power to all but 3,300 of the Central New York customers who lost it in Tuesday's violent storm, but some customers in hard-hit areas likely will wait another day for power to be restored, utility officials said this morning.

In East Syracuse, the hardest hit area in Onondaga County, all customers are expected to have power restored by early this afternoon, said Virginia Limmiatis, speaking for National Grid.

In the city of Syracuse, the utility listed 47 customers without power this morning, many of whom are slated to wait until Friday afternoon for restoration. The 141 customers without power in Camillus are expected to get it back by midnight, the utility estimates.

To find out the schedule for your power to be restored, visit the utility's outage map. The estimates change periodically as the utility makes progress, Limmiatis said.

New York State Electric & Gas this morning reported 1,700 customers without power in its Ithaca division as of 11 a.m., including 641 customers in Cayuga County and 597 in Tompkins County. NYSEG officials say they expect all customers to have power restored by midnight tonight.